Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Iron Man (2008)

“Iron
Man. That's kind of catchy. It's got a nice ring to it. I mean it's not
technically accurate. The suit's a gold titanium alloy, but it's kind of
provocative, the imagery anyway.”

When I was younger I always wished I had a brain for
science and math because I was always terrible at both subjects. I gloriously
failed math, well I passed but barely. Same with science I barely passed it.
Oddly enough I think they are interesting subjects so I guess that is why I wished
and still wish I had a brain for them. I imagine now what it would be like if I
did have a math and science brain and how I could mix that with technology. I
can tell you I would not be a broke ass twenty-something making a teacher’s
salary as a museum registrar with an Art History degree. I would have a decent
job able to pay off my student loans.

Anyway, how cool would it be to be able to be so
brilliant with science and technology where you can build all these mechanical
objects that help the world? Or better yet you can build awesome things for
yourself (I would build the most awesome computer system and home theater
system… two of my absolute dreams in life to have an awesome computer system
and a kick ass home theater). I would not mind being a female version of Tony
Stark from Iron Man. But unlike Tony I
would not want to be such an arrogant dick or build weapons. The weapons part
really is not his doing so much since Stark Industries was set up by his father
Howard. Tony turns his company around with making weapons when he becomes a
victim of them himself in the first Marvel Studios movie Iron Man.

Billionaire playboy Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) is in
Iraq to give a presentation to the soldiers about a new weapon he has created. The
soldiers do not really buy his presentation or him really. While driving Tony
around the humvee he is in comes under attack. Tony makes it out and for cover
but one of his own rockets finds its way towards him and it explodes releasing
shrapnel. Next thing Tony knows he is in a room on a cot with something in his
chest keeping him alive hooked up to a car battery.

The bad guys who took Tony captive hold him in order to
make them a weapon. As he is making the weapon the bad guys desire Tony
realizes his new ticker can do much more than keep him alive. From metal scraps
he builds a suit that can be powered by his new life source. With this suit he
manages to get away from the bad guys.

With a new perspective, upon arrival back in the States,
Tony tells the press and the world that Stark Industries will no longer be
making weapons he now only wants to help people. One person that is very upset
by this turn of events is Howard’s old business partner Obadiah Stane (Jeff
Bridges). Obadiah still wants the company to make weapons and wants to freeze
Tony out. Tony does not see the old man as a great threat. He instead focuses
his energy around making a suit like the one he created in the desert only
better and more efficient. Tony makes a suit powered once again by his new life
source that can fly, protect him from bullets, shoot bullets, navigate him, and
so much more.

Obadiah shows his true colors when he wants Tony’s exact
suit he made in the desert. The scientists working on Obadiah’s suit have no
idea how it was made they are not Tony Stark. The old man blows up in fury and
puts on the armored suit. Tony and his new suit are put to the test when he
must a much bigger, angrier, hell bent Obadiah.

Iron Man was
not a bad superhero movie. Robert Downey, Jr. is the perfect Tony Stark no one
else could have played the character any better. I do like how Tony created
Iron Man as a way to make the world better after he saw what his weapons do
first hand but I do think it is unfortunate that he had to have that
experience. It is like with anything else in the world where some rich person
is diagnosed with something and all the sudden they are all about that and do
everything for that. It is not a bad thing but, not to sound like an asshole,
that kind of bother me. Whatever, now Tony Stark is the hero Iron Man doing
awesome stuff with the Avengers. All I can say was that Iron Man was good. It was
well written and acted and directed but there was something about it that did
not leave me an “oh my god that was amazing” feeling. I did not feel invested
in it put it that way. Besides my feelings, Iron
Man is definitely worth seeing.

About Me

I am une cinephile to every inch of the word. I started this blog to share my love for movies and what I have learned about them along the way. I like and watch all kinds of movies. For the movie lover in all of you out there, I hope you enjoy this blog.